Mini-reflections on the Sunday scripture readings designed
for persons on the run. "Faith Book" is also brief enough to
be posted in the Sunday parish bulletins people take home.

From
today’s Gospel reading:

"And
Mary kept all these things,

Reflecting
on them in her heart."

Reflection:

Mary
stands with the world’s displaced and vulnerable. The store
windows may romanticize the nativity scene, even make it
look attractive – but we can’t. A stable, or cave is no
place for a woman to give birth. A manger for animal food is
not where any mother wants to place her newborn. Mary has
much to ponder about God’s surprising and confusing ways!

So, we
ask ourselves:

Has this Christmas season helped turn our eyes
to the neediest families among us?